When you walk down the street of Kabul your values for life changes, they do change.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

Chefs today choose to step onto that treadmill where they have to be seen. Every day they have to go to this party, they have to go to that party. But then you think "Who is doing the cooking?".

You have to shout in the kitchen to deliver the orders, to drive the troops, to get the food out. When you have a table of eight courses and everyone's having something different, you have a 15-second window to get it all together so no one at the table waits.

I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.

The more I invested in myself, the kinder I was to myself and the more I understood myself.

I didn't understand myself well enough be an ambassador to my world, to inspire people to want to cook, to inspire young people to want to come into my industry.